Music-Business Aspects

Managing Your Band: A Guide to Artist Management is your go-to guide for artist management in the new music industry, especially independent artists taking the DIY route. Industry insiders Steve Marcone and Dave Philp tackle the work and knowledge required of an artist manager...

Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it. Today's voice students leave the conservatory with better training than ever, but...

It's no secret that the music industry has changed substantially over the past several years, and will likely continue to change for many years to come. Now more than ever it's vital that musicians become familiar with the rights they have in their music...

Most people looking at the music industry as a career only think of artist, producer, and engineer, but there are a multitude of other exciting options that offer financial security and keep you close to the music you love. The Best Jobs in the...

Today's music marketplace is more complex than any previous era. It's easy to feel paralyzed by the plethora of digital services and business models, to say nothing of corresponding revenue streams--all of which are established by copyright. In simple and easy-to-read language, Music Copyright:...

Get Ready to Build, Launch, and Grow a Successful Record Label Discover how to create goals and define your audience Learn how to manage royalties and contracts Build a successful album campaign Learn about Digital and Physical Distribution Learn how to discover and sign...

The authorized biography of the most notorious rock manager of all time, Peter Grant, best known for his work with Led Zeppelin Peter Grant is the most famous music manager of all time. Often acknowledged as the "fifth member of Led Zeppelin," Grant's story...

The Art of Music Production is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the role of the music producer in creating successful music recordings. Now in its fourth edition, it is the definitive guide to the art and business of music production. Author...

Tens of thousands of songs are needed each year for TV, movies, and commercials. The songwriting techniques and marketing tips in this book will show you how to craft your music and lyrics to give the Film and TV industry what it needs, make...

The classic guide to independent music promotion (revised and updated 2013). With this manual, you'll discover that music marketing doesn't have to be expensive or flashy to be effective. Whether you're promoting a fast-growing indie band, record label or solo act from your basement,...

Independent musicians can waste years, even decades trying to figure out how to make it in the music industry. It can be hard enough trying to determine how to get started never mind tackling an endless to-do list made up of writing, recording, touring,...

Whether you're in a band yourself or part of a ministry involved with teams, this book can help you on your journey. For 30 years, musician, songwriter, and worshipper Tom Lane has worked in the Christian worship music industry and alongside churches, ministries, and...

The indispensable resource for anyone in the music business. Every business arrangement in the music industry comes down to the written agreement between the parties engaged in the project at hand. When you're co-writing with other songwriters or making publishing agreements, recording agreements with...

Author: Darrell BallardISBN-10: 1418449067ISBN-13: 9781418449063Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2004Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.16d

Taylor is the Marshall McLuhan or the Neil Postman of our new digital economy, the lonely voice raising urgent questions we need to answer together . . . If The People's Platform doesn't spark the conversation about the kind of democracy and culture we...

An Open Letter to Any Musician Who Wants to Make $100,000 (or More) in the Music Business You're in a career where it's considered "normal" to be broke. If you were doing anything else for a living, you'd have given up by now. And...

"An excellent guide and knowledge base to anyone who wants to start up a guitar repair shop or small music store."Get on the inside track to a successful guitar repair, guitar building and/ or custom shop guitar business. Save yourself time, money, and frustration...

This book is about the life and times I shared while I worked for the Insane Clown Posse. This book takes a look into the crazy world I lived while I was employed by Psychopathic Records. All the tours, in-store tours, promotional work, and...

The twenty-first-century art world offers performers and professionals an unrivaled variety of opportunities, but also requires a never-before-seen investment in skills beyond artistic talent. Today's artists must build sustainable success in this new arts economy through collaborative big-idea thinking that celebrates a continual engagement...

What is a music entrepreneur? Everyone knows what a musician is. Everyone knows what an entrepreneur is. But when you combine the two, you get a whole new category altogether - music entrepreneurship. This book explores, in detail, what it means to be a...

If there's a cultural artefact capable of withstanding the vagaries and fickleness of the digital age as well as the printed book, it's the vinyl record . . . In Listening to the Wind, Ian Preece sets out on an international road trip to...

The music business is a multifaceted, transnational industry that operates within complex and rapidly changing political, economic, cultural and technological contexts. The mode and manner of how music is created, obtained, consumed and exploited is evolving rapidly. It is based on relationships that can...

Drawing on interdisciplinary research methods from musicological and legal scholarship, this book maps the historical terrain of forensic musicology. It examines the contributions of musical expert witnesses, their analytical techniques, and the issues they encounter assisting courts in clarifying the blurred lines of music...

Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry executives define their markets' boundaries? What happens when musicians cross those boundaries? What can Christian music teach us about commercial popular music? In God Rock,...

A practical guide on how to break into the world of touring, from the perspective of a female guitar tech, tour manager and ex-musician. Do you wonder "How do I get my first tour?" or "Do you need to be strong to be able...

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Notice Something Odd?▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ I'm one of the only authors on Amazon selling a "how to" book on audiobooks, with an actual audiobook accompanying it! In "How to Make an Audiobook", Rob Branson shows you everything you need to know, from start to finish, on...

The Enterprising Musician's Legal Toolkit is a guide for navigating the foundational decisions to effectively launch and successfully operate a creative enterprise. Using accessible language, the book demystifies business and legal jargon and empowers entrepreneurial musicians through step-by-step instructions. Expanding upon The Enterprising Musician's...

For two decades after rock music emerged in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the oldest and largest labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada, refused to recognize rock 'n' roll as legitimate music or its performers as...

"The fact is, you will teach." from the Foreword by Stephen Clapp, Dean Emeritus, The Julliard School. Whether serving on the faculty at a university, maintaining a class of private students, or fulfilling an invitation as guest artist in a master class series, virtually...

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Historical Research in Record Labels - Best History (2017) This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the...

Until very recently, the path to success within the music industry was much clearer. The successful combination of song, producer, talent and potential would capture the attention of a record label...and their machinery, belief and investment would launch the artist into the realms of...

Band Aids is an organizational guide for early career band directors and for more experienced directors seeking new organizational and management strategies and approaches for their school and community bands. The authors present a practical approach to organizing, managing, and teaching an instrumental music...

The second edition of iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Streaming Era sheds light on the way large corporations appropriate new technology to maintain their market dominance in a capitalist system. To date, scholars have erroneously argued that digital music has diminished the power...

Veteran musician and industry insider Bobby Borg presents a strategic, step-by-step guide to producing a fully customized, low-budget plan of attack for marketing one's music. Presented in a conversational tone, this indispensable guide reveals the complete marketing process using the same fundamental concepts embraced...

The Musicians' Productivity Planner provides musicians of all styles and levels the ability to organize their projects with both creative and business methods. Plan your projects as well as your monthly, weekly, and daily tasks - all in service of your overall goals. This...

From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period's most iconic artists. Working primarily in Louisiana for Boston-based Rounder Records, Billington produced such giants as Irma Thomas,...

In Solo Acoustic Musician (SAM), Michael Nichols shares his personal experiences and technical know-how gathered from over 30 years as a live performer. In a straightforward conversational voice, he lays out a dynamic vision for how to make a living and have fun being...

Cowboys and Indies is nothing less than the first definitive history of the recording industry on both sides of the Atlantic. From the invention of the earliest known sound-recording device in 1850s Paris to the CD crash and digital boom today, author and industry...

PAVED in depth will grant a birds eye view for those who are in search of a successful direction or route within the Music Industry by minimizing the obstacles they may face. If there was a minimal amount of let downs that may arise...

Author Sahpreem King lays out the steps one must take to learn the art and craft of hip-hop production. He begins with a brief history of the genre, explains what a producer and beat-maker does, how to build a studio, assemble your production team,...

Chrissie Hynde, Devo..Rubber City Rebels...The Rubber City's rebel musical rootsMusic made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber plants, the music was an intentional antithesis of Top 40...

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Record Labels-Certificate of Merit (2012) The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century. In addition...

Every songwriter and music publisher wants their music placed in a film, a TV show, a commercial, or other visual media. This guide provides the important steps to making this happen.Author: Tracey Marino, Vance MarinoISBN-10: 1493061119ISBN-13: 9781493061112Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2022Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.49lbsSize:...

There's a lot of confusing information in the music business: copyright, different types of royalties, how to get paid, and how to not sign over rights you shouldn't. Now there is a single resource that explains these concepts in an easy-to-understand format. Written by...

The Best Gift Book for Drummers is one of the best gifts for drummers of all ages and abilities, from grade school beginners to working professionals. It makes shopping for gifts for drummers easy. You don't have to worry about choosing the wrong drum...

"Music defines us. Joel Beckerman knows. Let him tell you all about it." --Anthony Bourdain "Equal parts sociological study and business advice, using unique everyday examples--for instance, how the fate of the Chili's fajita empire rested on the sound of the sizzling platter, and...

Create, Produce, Consume explores the cycle of musical experience for musicians, professionals, and budding entrepreneurs looking to break into the music industry. Building on the concepts of his previous book, Making Money, Making Music, David Bruenger provides readers with a basic framework for understanding...

In Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry, Clinton Heylin examines the entire modern history of this underground culture: from what defines a bootleg and its complex and protean legal status, to a full history of bootlegs' production and distribution, to what's...

The one-hit wonder has a long and storied history in popular music, exhorting listeners to dance, to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, to ponder mortality, to get a job, to bask in the sunshine, or just to get up and dance...

Many guidebooks show you how to distribute your music online, but nothing will happen if it just sits in cyberspace without an effective promotional strategy.Strike the Right Chord is different than other guides: it enables you to achieve global success from your home computer....